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Hi, I'm working on a multi-robot project. Robots need to talk to each other directly.

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asked 2014-07-27 12:46:40 -0500

Armin
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updated 2014-07-27 16:28:06 -0500

Hi, I'm working on a multi-robot project, which robots need to talk to each other directly. Assume that robot1 wants to talk to robot3, so robot1 publishes its desire to talk. One way to solve is that robot3 subscribes to every other robots to find out which one to talk. This approach have several disadvantages like latency and confliction. I wanted to know if there is any way to solve this problem with direct connection between robots in ROS?

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answered 2014-07-27 20:53:38 -0500

Mehdi.

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updated 2014-07-28 01:20:17 -0500

I could imagine using services, Whenever a robot 1 wants to talk to robot 3, it calls the service of robot 3 to engage a conversation. No need for subscriptions here, every robot just need to know the name of the services for each other robot. And only then when the conversation is engaged, both robots can subscribe to each other. When the conversation ends, the subscriptions should be canceled.